BJ Bowen
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sweet!! thank you!
Hey… one more questions… and thanks so much for helping me through this… If I import without the ID, will that detach the User from that listing? Are users attached to the listing by the ID?
Actually, I didn’t know the import would work if I deleted the IDs from the post_id column. Yes, if that will work, it’s the easiest solution.
Okay. After reading your response, I don’t think you understand the extent of work that was done on the Development site.
So here’s the scenario: I was asked to redesign the site (foundation96.com). So, I cloned the entire site over to the development area (dev.foundation96.com). We spent 2.5 months on redesigning the site, adding new pages and content in the development area.
Once the redesign was finished and approved, the next task was to add the Users and Places (User Generated Content) that had been created on the live site (foundation96.com) WHILE the development of the new design was in progress in the development area (dev.foundation96.com). So, in other words, while I was working in the development area, the live site was still up and running and new User Generated Content was being created.
So, I have two sites that need to be merged. 1) The development site has new CSS, new pages, new images, new sliders, and changes made to existing pages. 2) The live site only has two new types of content: Users and Places that were created since the redesign began.
Importing/Exporting the new Users was not a problem.
The problem was when I used GeoDirectory’s Import/Export tool for Places.
So, how would you get the new Places that were added to the live site since the redesign began over to the development site without overwriting the content that had been created on the development site? How?
Thank you.
Okay… then please explain to me how I’m supposed to merge New Content from a development site and the New Users & Places from the site that is live. How do others do it? If you can teach me a way that is more efficient, I’m all ears.
I know you can export by date, but not by time. This is a global site. In order to not overwrite, the exact time will be necessary. It would be better for everyone involved, if the export/import didn’t overwrite IDs.
Please see if you can find out how other plugins do this without overwriting. It is possible. Thank you.
sorry… I meant to say “using the export function”…
Using the import function, one cannot specify a time and date for the import.
Think about the import process a little more… I know there is a solution and I have faith that all of you can find it. Other plugins do it without overwriting existing content… so the answer is out there. You can do it!
ok. So, for images I need to find all of the images that were uploaded after the exact time I cloned the site and move those to the folder it told me to move them to. (Cumbersome process, but okay.)
Page IDs… Okay, so for us designers and developers, this is a serious problem. Is there any way the import can be based solely on slugs so that it doesn’t overwrite new content. Yes, I chose to Update pages with existing slugs because Users had updated their listings. If I had chosen to not update the listings with existing IDs, then I would have lost all changes that Users had made to their listings.
However, if the import could be based on page slugs, then it wouldn’t overwrite other pages and posts that are created in the development area.
I thought a Places import would only overwrite existing Places. And, it would be a better process if this were the case.
Our next steps involve adding a webinar section to the site and we’ll have to go through this process again. We will clone the site over to a dev environment, build out the new section, and then merge the Users and Places that have been added since development began and then push that site live.
Before we do that, I need to make sure that the process doesn’t destroy pages and posts when I import the places.
Again, this plugin is fantastic in so many ways and I know a lot of thought and hard work went into making it. Is there any way you can change the import process so that it does not overwrite any content other than Places? Whether it’s by page slugs or some other way?
Thank you for your time and attention. I truly do appreciate it.
hmmm… I disagree. If I import Places from one site to another site, it SHOULD NOT delete the site pages and assign those page slugs to various Places.
It was a complete site redesign. The only things that needed to be imported from the old (live) site was new Users and Places since April. It makes NO sense to have to take the live site down and make all of those changes –weeks worth of work.
As I said, I’ve done this many times with no problem. 1. Make changes to the site in Dev area 2. Get approval from client 3. Import new users and places to dev site 4. push the entire dev site to the live URL.
This is day 3 fixing broken crap and I still cannot push the dev site to the live URL because so many things broke this time. The breaks did not occur when importing the Users. But, as soon as I imported the Places (through the WP Admin Geodirectory Import function– not with the database), many, many, many things broke.
Something is wrong. This is nothing that I’m doing.
About the Image URL — you must have misunderstood. The imported Place brings the correct domain name, but references the wrong uploads folder. Instead of 2017/05/3734_Jarrah-headshot-2016.jpg (where the file is actually stored), the imported listing references 2017/07/3734_Jarrah-headshot-2016.jpg — where the file is NOT stored.
I’m going to say this again… I’ve never had this happen before and we’ve been through this process with this site multiple times.
Perhaps re-read what I wrote. I’m not exporting from a live site and then re-importing them to the same live site.
1. Clone the live site to development/staging area
2. In the dev environment, make changes to the site that do not affect the GeoDirectory listings (new homepage, new pages, new menus, new forms)
3. Approval from Client.
4. Import new users that have been added since the development began (April)
5. Import new Places that have been added since the development began (April)
6. Test site.
7. Push the development site to the live URL and Boom! you have an upadated site!This is how it’s done. Do you understand now?
hey… yes, the import rewrote a whole lot of slugs. We began the redesign in April.
-We cloned the site (as usual — no problems.)
-We redesigned the site in the development area.
– Users were still adding and editing content on the live site.SLUGS:
You’re right. The problem was with the slugs.I exported Places from the live site and imported that file into the dev site. Almost all of the listings that were added from April through July had very strange slugs. Also, some site pages (the home page!! and several others) were deleted and those deleted page slugs were assigned to various, seemingly random places. :-0
IMAGES:
Most of the images of the messed up places were being requested from the uploads July folder, not the folder that the image actually resides. (ex: New site colled: http://deryk.foundation96.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/3734_Jarrah-headshot-2016.jpg BUT OLD site: http://dev2.foundation96.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/3734_Jarrah-headshot-2016.jpg) So, I moved the images from their original folder to the July folder and now they appear. (Again, all of these image problems were from April to July.)MENUS:
Menus (Secondary, Main, Footers) were messed up as well. I had to recreate menus in every section — I guess because those pages were deleted, the menus also deleted the links??I fixed all of this manually, but please find why this happened and let me know when it is fixed. We have a lot more upgrades planned to do to this site, and I can’t spend two days working for free the next time we push an upgrade live. I can’t charge my client for all of this time, she’d kill me.
Not sure what else I’ll find… I’m still testing.
Thanks so much… just thought I’d ask.
To add a little more info.. After troubleshooting some more, it seems that the only setting that makes a difference is the zoom= setting…
[gd_listing_map width=1483 height=837 scrollwheel=false marker_cluster=1 category=-1 zoom=3] <– zoom=3 gives a really messed up map (Little grid-like squares)
But if I change it to zoom=1, the grid-like squares go away and the map is one cohesive piece, but it is zoomed out too far.
Any insight?
That’s great! Can you please explain why this is happening on one site, but not the other, when both are set up the exact same way?
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